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05/04/2026

CTE doesn't come from one big hit. It's the subtotal of all of them.

Jay Gunkelman: "It's not just Troy Aikman getting laid out and being unconscious for a couple minutes on the field. The linemen who get their heads slapped from the left or the right — that adds up. From high school, college, a few years in the pro.

You end up with a CTE from subconcussive blows — a subtotal of them."

05/03/2026

For an ischemic brain on the edge of cognitive decline, Jay Gunkelman's plan is direct: hyperbaric oxygen at two atmospheres + 40 Hz photobiomodulation. The hyperbaric perfuses oxygen through tissue without needing healthy blood vessels. The 40 Hz light boosts mitochondria and lets the brain rebuild networks.

🎙️ Full episode: https://fb.watch/GRW-FmBVNe/

05/02/2026

Your alpha frequency is your brain's sample rate of the outside world. Faster alpha = better resolution on reality. This 50-year-old's alpha is at 7.81 Hz. Jay Gunkelman calls it: "this brain needs a major tune-up before it needs a rebuild."

🎙️ Full episode: https://fb.watch/GRW-FmBVNe/

04/30/2026

🧠 BCIA would mark this EEG wrong — Jay Gunkelman calls it vascular ischemia anyway.

🎯 Jay goes in BLIND on a 50-year-old male's slow alpha at PZ, disagrees with Joshua's TBI read, and lands the same treatment plan either way:

🏥 Hyperbaric
💡 40 Hz photobiomodulation
⚡ SMR/beta training

Read the brain, treatment follows the brain. The story doesn't matter. 🎤

📧 Press: pete@neuronoodle.com

04/29/2026

Join us LIVE for The Brain Bar — every Wednesday Joshua Moore
brings a real anonymized EEG scan and our panel reads it live
on air. No scripts. No prep. Just raw clinical expertise.

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🔴 WE ARE LIVE RIGHT NOW — The Brain Bar is open.A real anonymized EEG scan. A panel of experts. Zero script.Watch us bre...
04/29/2026

🔴 WE ARE LIVE RIGHT NOW — The Brain Bar is open.
A real anonymized EEG scan. A panel of experts. Zero script.

Watch us break down a real brain live — then jump in with your questions.
🧠 Watch now: https://youtube.com/live/3B6Ig8camuQ?feature=share

04/29/2026

When you take a bonk on one side of your head — the damage isn't always on the side you got hit.

Jay Gunkelman explains why:

"Your skull is damn near like a satellite dish. If you percussed it, it would focus energy at a point, at a distance."

Your bones act as a parabolic reflector. The force channels through and focuses at a distant location.

That's how coup-contra-coup injuries actually work.

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04/28/2026

Cancun. A restaurant table. 25–30 neuroscientists.

Dirk De Ridder looks around and says: "The people around this table are just not normal."

Jay Gunkelman's response: "If we're not normal, we should form our own statistical distribution."

That's how the Outliers Club was born.

For years after, Jay and his crew would sign emails with "OC" — the OC from the OG. 🧠

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04/27/2026

A temporal spike doesn't always cause a seizure.

Sometimes it causes a fit of rage. A fit of laughter. A false memory. An emotion that isn't really yours.

Jay Gunkelman: "When the cortex burns a path — you get emotion's aftermath. People that have uncontrolled emotion may have a temporal discharge."

This is pseudobulbar affect. And it's why reading EEGs matters for mental health — not just epilepsy.

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04/26/2026

Jay Gunkelman draws a 45-degree line through a 58-year-old woman's brain map.

Left frontal to right posterior.

Pete: "What does that line mean?"

Jay: "Coup-contra-coup injury." When the delta and slow alpha land on opposite diagonal corners of the brain — something happened.

The reveal? She had a documented right-side head knock. Jay called it from the waveform geometry alone.

Full episode link in first comment 🧠

04/25/2026

Why does Jay Gunkelman ignore the medical reports people send him?

One word: bias.

"People send me three or four medical reports and the raw EEG. I read the EEG. The medical reports — I leave those be until I'm done reading the EEG so I don't get a bias."

Waveform first. Story second. That's how 500,000+ scans get read right.

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